Handwerk und New Amateurism - Kunstbulletin

Gelesen: Handwerk und New Amateurism ein Artikel von Daniel Baumann, Kunstbulletin 5, 2008.

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Kreatief Met Kurk 1993/94

Kreatief Met Kurk Screenstill
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Kreatief met Kurk ist ein satirisches Bastel-Fernsehprogramm von Arjan Ederveen, Tosca Niterink und Pieter Kramer das 1993 / 94 auf dem holländischen Sender VPRO gezeigt wurde. Präsentiert wird dieser Bastel-Fernsehkurs von Peter van de Pood dem Kursleiter und der Präsentatorin Ellen. In jedem Kurs wird mit dem Basismaterial Kork ein Thema bearbeitet. Themen wie zB. Mystik, Dramatik, Romantik, Krieg, und Geschichte werden in diesen Kursen währenddem Peter mit den Korken hantiert besprochen. Die zwei Präsentatoren sitzen dabei in einem komplett idiotischen Set mit gigantischen Korkzapfen und traurig herabhängenden Plastikblumentöpfe im Hintergrund. Kreatief met Kurk ist eine hilarische Parodie auf alle abendfüllenden Do-It-Yourself-, Mal-, Koch- und Psycho-Babbel-Fernsehprogramme. Scheinbar wurden 1993 alle "Korkdingens" die während der Sendung entstanden sind in einer Ausstellung im Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam gezeigt.

Dvd: Kreatief met Kurk, Deel 1 & Deel 2, Regie: Pieter Kramer Cast: Arjan Ederveen, Tosca Niterink, VPRO 2007. (orig. 1993/94)

Ed Wood by Tim Burton

Filmscreen Ed Wood
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Ed Wood was originally the brainchild of screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski who planned to make it with college classmate Michael Lehmann. 1994 Tim Burton finally directed this American comedic film starring Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film, shot in black and white, was based in large part on Rudolph Grey's quasi-biography Nightmare of Ecstasy. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films and also his relationship with actor Béla Lugosi, played by Martin Landau. Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author and editor (often performing many of these functions simultaneously). In the 1950s, Wood made a run of independently produced, extremely low-budget horror, science fiction and cowboy films, now celebrated for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts, and outlandish plot elements. In fact, his films are all so laughably amateurish that Wood finally achieved a sort of posthumous fame for the cheesy awfulness of his work. Ed Wood is an affectionate portrait of maniacal postwar American optimism. A film that celebrates Wood and the zany spirit of 1950s exploitation films - in which a great title, a has-been star and a lurid ad campaign were enough to get bookings for some of the oddest films ever made.

Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, written by Rudolph Grey, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, USA, 127 min, b&w, Touchstone Pictures, 1994

Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
by Rudolph Grey. Published by Feral House, 1994. ISBN-10: 0922915245, ISBN-13: 978-0922915248

The Ed Wood Box (Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait, Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Night of the Ghouls, The Haunted World of Ed Wood, 1956) Starring: Edward J. Wood. Format: Box set, Black & White. Studio: Image Entertainment. DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004. Run Time: 467 minutes
ASIN: B0002W4TNA

The Ed Wood Collection - A Salute to Incompetence (1959) Starring: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson Directed by: Ed Wood. Format: Color, DVD-Video. DVD Release Date: March 20, 2007. Run Time: 450 minutes. ASIN: B000LSBXIY

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The Vanishing Shadow - Vintage Science Fiction Film

Ada Ince - The Vanishing Shadow
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Screenstill out of the movie The Vanishing Shadow a 12-episode serial directed by Lew Landers, Universal Picture Company Inc. 1934.

An electrical engineer, Stanley Stanfield, brings his newest invention to the famous electrical wizard, Carl Van Dorn -- a vest-like apparatus that enables the wearer to vanish, leaving only a shadow. Van Dorn is vastly impressed and, with the aid of the machine, the pair set out to bring about the downfall of power-crazed, money-mad Wade Barnett and his crony Dorgan, whose political-group activities, through a vicious smear campaign, had hounded Stanfield's father to death. Stanfield's efforts are complicated by the fact that his girlfriend, known to him as Gloria Grant is really Barnett's daughter, who has rejected her father and goes by an alias.

Books Tagged with "The Vanishing Shadow":

Up from the Vault - Rare Thrillers of the 1920s and 1930s
By John T. Soister, published by McFarland, 2004, ISBN 0786417455, 9780786417452, 234 pages

"A number of thrillers made in the 1920s and 1930s have become available again thanks to new technology. There are a few, however, that remain elusive to most, if not all, movie buffs. This book covers 21 thrillers from those decades that are well-regarded and eagerly sought, but difficult to find-The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu (1923), The Unknown Purple (1923), The Sorrows of Satan (1926), While London Sleeps (1926), The Monkey Talks (1927), The Chinese Parrot (1927), Stark Mad (1929), The Unholy Night (1929), High Treason (1929), The Spider (1931), Eran Trece (1931), The Monkey's Paw (1933), Trick for Trick (1933), Deluge (1933), The Vanishing Shadow (1934), The Witching Hour (1934), Double Door (1934), Black Moon (1934), Le Golem (1936), The Scarab Murder Case (1937), and Sh! The Octopus (1937). For each film, the author provides such details as the production company, running time, release date(s), cast and production credits, a synopsis, and commentary." Source: Google Books

Kenneth Strickfaden, Dr. Frankenstein's electrician
By Harry Goldman and contributor Ed Angell, published by McFarland, 2005, ISBN 0786420642, 9780786420643,
214 pages

Kenneth Strickfaden, innovative genius of illusionary special effects from silent films to the age of television, set the standard for Hollywood's mad scientists. Strickfaden created the science fiction apparatus in more than 100 motion picture films and television programs, from 1931's Frankenstein to the Wizard of Oz and The Mask of Fu Manchu to television's The Munsters. The skilled technician, known around Hollywood's back lots as ?Mr. Electric, ? once doubled for Boris Karloff in a dangerous scene and was nearly electrocuted. From his birth in 1896 to his death in 1984, Strickfaden's life was filled with adventure. He spent his early years working the amusement parks on both coasts, served overseas as a Marine during World War I, took a 1919 cross-country trip in a dilapidated Model T, and favored risky pursuits like automobile and speedboat racing. He worked as an aeronautical mechanic, constructing airplanes for an historic around-the-world flight. A science teacher at heart, he gave 1,500 traveling science demonstration lectures across the U.S. and Canada. Besides covering Strickfaden's entire personal and professional life, this book discusses how later films show his influence. It reveals the fate of his collection of equipment, and is richly illustrated with numerous rare and previously unpublished photographs. Appendices provide a selection of notes, doodles, and scribbles from Strickfaden's notebooks, informal sketches, correspondence, documents, a chronology of his film and television contributions, a bibliography, a film index, and a complete subject index. Source: Google Books

Vintage Science Fiction Films, 1896-1949
By Michael Benson, published by McFarland, 2000, original from the University of Michigan, digitized Feb 27, 2008
ISBN 0786409363, 9780786409365, 231 pages

Time has not faded the sparkle of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, King Kong, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and The Invisible Man. These gems and 370 more are included in this comprehensive catalog of the genre's silent films, sound films, and serials from the first half of the 20th century. Along with biographical material on the stars, the filmmakers, and the technicians responsible for cinema's first special effects, this volume has plot summaries of all the films, production anecdotes, notes about literary origins and a comprehensive alphabetical filmography of cast and production credits. Source: Google Books

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Martha Stewart - Queen Of The Domestic Arts

Martha Stewart - The Vanishing Shadow
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Image: Martha Stewart founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Copyright: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. All rights reserved. The Image reminds me of an image / screenstill out of the movie The Vanishing Shadow a 12-episode serial Directed by Lew Landers, Universal Picture Company Inc. 1934.

Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, editor, homemaking advocate, former stockbroker and fashion model. Over the last two decades Stewart has held a prominent position in the American publishing industry; as the author of several books, hundreds of articles on the domestic arts, editor of a national homekeeping magazine, host for two popular daytime television programs, and commercial spokeswoman for K-Mart. In 2004 she was convicted of lying to investigators about her sale of "ImClone Systems" stock in late 2001. Source: Wikipedia, CNNMoney 2004

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